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Jumelle, whose paper appears in the Revue Generale de Botanique of 
February r5. 
Fusicladium pirinum, and its effect on the pear, form the subject 
of Bulletin no. 163 of the Agricultural Experiment Station of Califor- 
nia, by Smith. 
Baodromus, a coleosporioid rust of Senecio, is described by Ar- 
thur in Annales Mycologiei of February, which also contains other 
papers on American fungi. 
The Discomycetes of Iowa form the subject of a paper by Seaver 
in vol. 5, no. 4, of the Bulletin from the laboratories of natural his- 
tory of the State University of Iowa. 
An analysis of the species of Phragmidium, by Dietel, has been 
published in recent numbers of Hedwigia. 
Atkinson's 1893 account of “Carnation Diseases " is reprinted in 
The American Florist of January. 
A discussion of soil bacteria and nitrogen assimilation, by Ches- 
ter, forms Bulletin no. 66 of the Delaware College Agricultural Ex- 
periment Station. 
A paper by Moore on soil inoculation for legumes, with reports 
upon the successful use of artificial cultures by practical farmers, 
constitutes Bulletin no. 7r of the Bureau of Plant Industry of the 
U. S. Department of Agriculture. 
A further discussion of copper as an algicide and disinfectant in 
water supplies is given by Moore and Kellerman in Buletin no. 76 
of the Bureau of Plant Industry, U. S. Department of Agriculture. 
A catalogue of the shrubs in the Vilmorin Garden, by Maurice L. 
de Vilmorin and D. Bois, with descriptions of new or recently intro- 
duced species, has recently been issued from the Librairie Agricole 
of Paris. 
An illustrated account of the desert laboratory at Tucson is given 
by Lloyd in the Popular Science Monthly for February. 
A Herkomer portrait of Sir Joseph Hooker is reproduced in half- 
tone in Zhe Gardeners’ Chronicle of January 7. 
A note on the work of Philippi, with portrait, is published by 
Hicken in the Anales de da Sociedad Cientifica Argentina of October 
last. 
